Blending theory and fiction, the authors - a philosopher and an artist - explore the aesthetic and political implications of generative AI. In a fragmented time, against a backdrop of climate catastrophe, a duo of estate agents manipulate and imagine reality using the Platform, an image-generating AI.

Through a series of speculative fictions, this book explores the many facets of this revolution: how social networks, which have become filters and metafilters, are reorganising our realities; how anarchive, the chaotic accumulation of possible images, is recomposing the past, the future and the imaginary in an infinite game of distortion and reinvention; pyropictomania, or the pleasure derived from the spectacle of a formidable waste of energy; the theft of light, which is suddenly turning the history of art into darkness.

The platform hides a beast that has to be fed with electrical energy and available brain time.

Credits

• Book, 304 pages, UV éditions, 2025
• Authors : Pierre Cassou-Noguès et Gwenola Wagon
• Graphic design and production : MDCP
• Corrections : Nathalie David
• Published with the support of LLCP EA4008, Université Paris 8, Institut ACTE, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and Institut Universitaire de France.